# ACTYA #

Actya is an ASP.NET MVC Content Management System (CMS). It can be used standalone, but it's also easy to add it to an existing .NET application via NuGet. Actya uses the RavenDB document database to store its content so no database setup is required.

## Getting Started ##

There are multipe ways to use Actya. The only prerequisite is the .NET 4 framework.

**Add to an existing application with NuGet**

*This assumes that you're developing a .NET 4.0 web application with Visual Studio 2010 and have NuGet installed.*

Open de Package Manager Console and enter:

	Install-Package -Pre Actya

After NuGet has finished the installation, The installer will kick in when you start the application.

**Use as standalone application**

Download the latest binary .zip package from http://actya.codeplex.com/releases. Extract the package to a folder and configure a website or application in IIS that points to the folder. Make sure that the IIS application pool uses the .NET 4.0 framework.

**Building from source**

Get the source code with your favorite Mercurial client from https://hg01.codeplex.com/actya or download the latest source package from http://actya.codeplex.com/releases. Open the Visual Studio Solution in the /src folder hit (CTRL-)F5!

## Support ##

http://actya.codedeplex.com/discussions

## Contribute ##

**Bugs**

If you find a bug with the gallery, please visit the Issue tracker (http://actya.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basics) and create an issue.

**Submit a patch**

To contribute to the Actya, make sure to create a fork first. Make your changes in the fork and send a pull request when you are done with your changes. See http://codeplex.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Forks for more info. Please also create an issue that in the issue tracker that goes with the patch.

Actya is Copyright © 2011-2012 Martijn Boland and other contributors under the MIT license.